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Joshua L. and Theodate L. Baily diaries
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-006
Overview
The diaries span the majority of Baily's adult life. As a young man, Baily was very involved in the Philadelphia community, and many of his early entries are related to the Philadelphia Historical Society, the Eromathean society, the Pennsylvania Prison Society, which advocated for the health and safety of incarcerated people and prison reform, The Philadelphia Society for Employment and Instruction of the Poor, and the Moyamensing House of Industry. In later entries, Baily is largely...
Dates:
1845-1916
Elizabeth Newlin Baker Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-248
Overview
Elizabeth Newlin Baker was a Pennsylvania Quaker peace activist and graduate of Swarthmore College, Class of 1902. This small collection contains drafts of letters she wrote, miscellaneous correspondence received, and papers concerning the Pennsylvania Job Mobilization Program of the late 1930s.
Dates:
1932-1969
Balderston Collected Manuscripts
Collection — othertype: SC-006
Identifier: SFHL-SC-006
Abstract
Most of the correspondence in this collection is addressed to Henry Drinker concerning trivial and more substantive matters of his business and that of the Society of Friends, including a letter from William Savery in 1794 from Canadagua describing a visit to the Oneidas. Also included are a document from the Philadelphia Committee to Joseph Elkinton in Tunesassah (1822) and a subscription list (1831) for J.J. Foster's publication on the New Jersey Crosswicks trial, signed by Roberts Vaux...
Dates:
1735-1822
"Teacher Willa"
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-008
Overview
The autobiography of Willa E. Ballard, a Quaker teacher, describes Ballard's early life, her parents and siblings, her experience growing up as a Quaker, her training as a teacher, and her experiences teaching in Moorestown and Atlantic City, New Jersey, and at the Mekusukey School in the Seminole Nation, as well as her time as a teacher and later a principal at various schools in California.
Dates:
1948
Jerome Balter and Ruth Balter Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-254
Overview
Jerome Balter (1921-2016), and Ruth Balter (born 1922), have been peace and social justice activists for many years. They were both active in efforts to desegregate housing and public schools in Rochester, New York from the late 1950s onward. Jerome Balter campaigned several time for local and state political offices as a way to achieve these goals. Both Balters were also active in efforts to oppose the Vietnam War. Ruth Balter was connected with Women Strike for Peace in Rochester. They...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1959-1974
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Baltimore Yearly Meeting draft epistles collection
Collection — othertype: SC-269
Identifier: SFHL-SC-269
Abstract
Collection of manuscript drafts of epistles prepared by Baltimore Yearly Meeting to send to the Yearly Meetings of Philadelphia, New York, Rhode Island, and North Carolina. Most concern the education and treatment of Indians, African Americans, and Quaker children; also, opposition to war and the production of liquor by Friends. All are handwritten with corrections.
Dates:
1776-1815
Harold Barton Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Barton, Harold
Abstract
In the early 1940s National Mental Health Foundation originated in 1944-1945 when Harold Barton and three associates, serving at Byberry State Hospital in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), announced plans for a national campaign to improve the conditions in mental hospitals. The exposure of these conditions through the efforts of men serving in CPS, and their efforts to be a nonviolent presence in mental institutions, began a new movement in mental health care in the U.S. The National Mental...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1944-1949
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Bassett-Little Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-277
Overview
The collection contain papers of the Bassett and Little families who resided in Swarthmore, Pa., in the first half of the twentieth century. In the 1980s, May Virginia Bassett Little (1913-1994) created a series of family scrapbooks accompanied by short memoirs and excerpts from her diaries. Her father was a birthright Quaker, and the family had deep roots in Swarthmore College and the Borough of Swarthmore. Her husband, Ralph V. Little, Jr., (1909-2001), also was raised in Swarthmore. Their...
Dates:
ca. 1923-2015
Horace Alexander Beale, Jr. photographs
Collection
Identifier: HCS-003-122
Overview
This collection contains two photographs of Horace Alexander Beale, Jr. in Haverford College productions, "Bamboozling" and "Darlot."
Dates:
ca. 1890
John Beer Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Beer, John
Abstract
John Beer was a professor of the history of science and chemistry, as well as a Quaker peace and antinuclear activist.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1954-1985
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 144
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- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 30
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- Quakers -- United States 28
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- Peace movements -- United States 26
- World War, 1914-1918 -- United States -- Sources 25
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources 25
- Antislavery movements -- United States 24
- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- Sources 24
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- Antinuclear movement -- United States 21
- Pacifists -- United States 21
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- Student movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 20
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- letters (correspondence) 18
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- Slavery -- United States 17
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- Quakers -- Family relationships 16
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- Society of Friends -- United States 14
- United States 14
- United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 14
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 14
- Youth and peace -- History -- Sources 14
- Church controversies -- Society of Friends 13
- Nuclear disarmament -- United States -- History -- Sources 13
- Pacifism -- United States -- History -- Sources 13
- Quaker women -- United States -- History -- Sources 13
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- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Draft resisters -- United States -- Sources 12
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- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- Sources 11
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- Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania 11
- Suffragists -- United States -- History -- Sources 11
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union 11
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors -- United States 11
- Militarism -- United States -- History -- Sources 10
- Motherhood -- United States -- History 10
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends -- History -- Sources 10
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 10
- Peace -- Study and teaching -- History -- Sources 10
- Peace walks and marches -- History -- Sources 10
- Political prisoners -- United States -- History -- Sources 10
- Quaker abolitionists 10
- Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States 10
- Women -- Education 10
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- clippings (information artifacts) 10
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- Women in education 9
- World War, 1939-1945 9
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- English 1063
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- Names
- American Friends Service Committee 47
- Civilian Public Service 36
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 32
- Swarthmore College 27
- Haverford College 25
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 25
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 22
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 20
- War Resisters League 20
- Bryn Mawr College 19
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 15
- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 15
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 15
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 14
- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 14
- Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 14
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 14
- Lyttle, Bradford 13
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 13
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. U.S. Section 13
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 12
- Mead, Lucia True Ames, 1856-1936 12
- Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 12
- Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948 12
- Wilson, E. Raymond (Edward Raymond), 1896-1987 12
- Kaufman, Abraham 11
- Newton, Ray 10
- Swomley, John M., 1915-2010 10
- Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 10
- Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 9
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 9
- Dellinger, David T., 1915-2004 9
- French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 9
- McReynolds, David 9
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 9
- Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 9
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. International Office 9
- Jack, Homer A. (Homer Alexander), 1916-1993 8
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Library 8
- Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1872-1949 8
- Finch, Henry Le Roy 7
- Friends Committee on National Legislation (U.S.) 7
- Gara, Larry 7
- Hutchinson, Dorothy H. (Dorothy Hewitt), 1905-1984 7
- Page, Kirby, 1890-1957 7
- Sharpless family 7
- Whitney, Norman J. (Norman Jehiel), 1891-1967 7
- Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892 7
- Witherspoon, Frances, 1886-1973 7
- A Quaker Action Group 6
- Baer, Gertrude 6
- Boss, Charles F. (Charles Frederick), 1888- 6
- Bromley, Ernest 6
- Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors 6
- Coffin, William Sloane, Jr., 1924-2006 6
- Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984 6
- DiGia, Ralph 6
- Forbes, Rose Dabney, 1864-1947 6
- Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879 6
- Gilmore, Robert Wallace, 1921-1988 6
- Golden Rule (Ketch) 6
- Hopper, Isaac T. (Isaac Tatem), 1771-1852 6
- Hull, Hannah Clothier, 1872-1958 6
- Lochner, Louis Paul, 1887-1975 6
- Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880 6
- Pickus, Robert 6
- Rankin, Jeannette, 1880-1973 6
- Reynolds, Barbara (Barbara Leonard) 6
- Reynolds, Earle L. 6
- Roodenko, Igal 6
- Tatum, Arlo D. 6
- Westtown Boarding School 6
- Allinson, Brent D. (Brent Dow) 5
- American Civil Liberties Union 5
- American Peace Society 5
- Andrews, Fannie Fern, 1867-1950 5
- Berrigan, Daniel 5
- Blake, Katherine Devereux, 1858-1950 5
- Brinton, Ellen Starr, 1886-1954 5
- Bromley, Marion, -1996 5
- Burritt, Elihu, 1810-1879 5
- Cadbury, Henry J. (Henry Joel), 1883-1974 5
- Carner, Lucy Perkins, 1886-1983 5
- Cary, Stephen G. 5
- Day, Dorothy, 1897-1980 5
- Dewey, John, 1859-1952 5
- Drinker, Henry, 1734-1809 5
- Emergency Peace Campaign (U.S.) 5
- Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958 5
- Freeman, Harrop A. (Harrop Arthur), 1907-1993 5
- Furnas, Paul J. 5
- Gulick, Sidney Lewis, 1860-1945 5
- Henry Ford Peace Expedition (1915-1916) 5
- Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830 5
- Houser, George M. 5
- Jones, Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew), 1863-1948 5
- Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931 5
- Lazarus, Frieda Langer 5
- Metropolitan Board for Conscientious Objectors 5
- National Council for Prevention of War (U.S.) 5 ∧ less
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